Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus are visible near the Moon in the morning. The evening stars include Venus, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. It’s said that people born on this day fall under the Sagittarius zodiac sign. Some names among them are: German composer Johannes Bach (1604), English clergyman and college benefactor John Harvard (1607), surgeon and advocate for women’s rights Mary Walker Edwards (1832), air conditioning engineer Willis Carrier (1876), baseball Hall of Fame member Lefty Gomez (1908), French playwright Eugene Ionesco (1909), TV journalist Eric Sevareid (1912), cartoonist Charles Schulz (1922), Argentine pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel (1931) (age 92), impressionist Rich Little (1938) (age 85), and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Tina Turner (1939).
Sports Hall of Fame member Art Shell was born in 1946 (age 77); Author James Dashner born in 1972 (age 51); Actor Peter Facinelli born 1973 (age 50); DJ Khaled born in 1975 (age 48); Singer Natasha Bedingfield born 1981 (age 42); Actor Robert Rackow born in 1989 (age 34); Singer/actor Rita Ora born 1990 (age 33); Actor Aubrey Omari Joseph born in 1997 (Age 26); Actor Luca Sabat born in 1997 (Age 26).
In 1789, US President George Washington proclaimed November 26, 1789, as Thanksgiving Day. This is America’s first holiday which was declared by the President.
In 1842, the University of Notre Dame was founded in South Bend, Indiana.
In 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archeology students Howard Carter and George Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun for the first time in more than 3,000 years.
In 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull presented U.S. proposals to Japanese peace envoys in Washington.
In 1948, the first commercial Polaroid camera was sold. The inventor of the device and founder of Polaroid Corp., Edwin H. Land, obtained some 533 patents before his death in 1991.
In 1956, bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at age 51. His records sold more than 110 million copies.
In 1965, France launched a satellite into space, becoming the world’s third space power after the United States and the Soviet Union.
In this article, in 1984, the United States and Iraq restored diplomatic relations, ending a 17-year break.
In 2001, a three-day prison riot in Afghanistan resulted in the death of CIA operative Johnny Michael Spann, a 32-year-old former United States Marine captain. His death in this battle was the United States’ first in the war.
In 2005, Vijaypati Singhania, a 67-year-old textile industry owner in India, set the record for the highest flight in a hot air balloon. He reached 69,852 feet above Mumbai.
In 2008, terrorists launched a series of attacks on Mumbai’s major landmarks and markets favored by foreign tourists. More than 170 people died and about 300 were injured in this three-day siege.
In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to search for life on Mars. This rocket was also accompanied by the rover Curiosity, which was exploring the planet in search of signs of life.
In 2020, a Turkish court convicted those involved in the failed 2016 coup that ousted Sovereign Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and sentenced them to life imprisonment
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